Persona’s biometric ID verification: what’s happening / why it matters

I run an R&D consultancy in Norway. Part of my work involves GDPR and EU AI Act compliance. I’m not here to be alarmist, there’s enough of that already, but I do want to lay out what’s going on with Persona verification and why the concerns are legitimate. Persona Inc. is a third-party identity verification company. When Anthropic or OpenAI require “ID verification,” they’re outsourcing it to Persona. The process typically involves uploading a government-issued ID and a live selfie. Persona uses biometric c